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The 🇳🇿 Parliament is holding a hearing into the potential for harm to young people from social media <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/meta-claims-instagram-scrolling-not-intentionally-addictive-as-mps-probe-social-media-harm/GTQ3TWLI4NHLDJJMGXUPWPQHUE/>.
Both Meta and Tiktok sent representatives, and the Meta one said “I
think the suggestion that our services are designed to be
intentionally addictive really misrepresents our intentions and the
work that we do do.”

Doo-doo, indeed. Remember when Frances Haugen blew the whistle on
Meta’s internal research proving that they *knew* their operations
were harming young people? Instead of fixing the harm, their response
was to forbid any further research. That’s the only way they can claim
that their “services” are not *intentionally* addictive -- by simply refusing to look at any evidence showing that it is.

Kind of sounds like how the cigarette companies denied the
addictiveness (and adverse health effects) of their products, back in
the day. Admittedly, they went further, by setting up a whole
“research institute” that did its own fake “science” propaganda to
push back against the increasing flood of findings from the
independent research community that the products really were harmful.

Unlike the real, physical world, it’s a bit difficult to do
independent research in a virtual world where your every action is
subject to the control of the organization that doesn’t want anybody conducting such research ...
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On 2025-10-06 07:26:04 +0000, Lawrence D´Oliveiro said:

Meta one said “I think the suggestion that our services are designed to be intentionally addictive really misrepresents our intentions and the
work that we do do.”

The "work" they do is steal your information, and blast you with
advertising and misinformation - both simply to fill their own pockets.
:-(

"Social media" is the bane of the internet, full of morons, and should
be banned for everyone worldwide!

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On 06/10/2025 08:26, Lawrence DOliveiro wrote:

The 🇳🇿 Parliament is holding a hearing into the potential for harm to >young people from social media ><https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/meta-claims-instagram-scrolling-not-intentionally-addictive-as-mps-probe-social-media-harm/GTQ3TWLI4NHLDJJMGXUPWPQHUE/>.
Both Meta and Tiktok sent representatives, and the Meta one said “I
think the suggestion that our services are designed to be
intentionally addictive really misrepresents our intentions and the
work that we do do.”

Doo-doo, indeed. Remember when Frances Haugen blew the whistle on
Meta’s internal research proving that they *knew* their operations
were harming young people? Instead of fixing the harm, their response
was to forbid any further research. That’s the only way they can claim
that their “services” are not *intentionally* addictive -- by simply >refusing to look at any evidence showing that it is.

Kind of sounds like how the cigarette companies denied the
addictiveness (and adverse health effects) of their products, back in
the day. Admittedly, they went further, by setting up a whole
“research institute” that did its own fake “science” propaganda to >push back against the increasing flood of findings from the
independent research community that the products really were harmful.

Unlike the real, physical world, it’s a bit difficult to do
independent research in a virtual world where your every action is
subject to the control of the organization that doesn’t want anybody >conducting such research ...

The antichrist didn't intentionally unleash the five* horsemen.

* Number five? That would be lies and disinformation.
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